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Collection: 7-day Books
Call Number: F
Author: Eckstine, Erin Crosby
Title: Junie
Remainder of title: a novel
Summary, etc. note: "A strong-willed enslaved girl is haunted by her sister's ghost as she grapples with circumstances beyond her control, risking her life as the Civil War looms in this lush and tenderhearted debut. Junie has always yearned for more. Born and raised on the Bellereine plantation in the Alabama countryside, the sixteen-year-old spends her days working for the McQueens and serving as a maid for their daughter Violet, her oldest and closest friend. In the daytime, she entertains herself with poetry and imagines grand romances and faraway worlds. Under the cover of night, she steals away to the woods, curling up by the riverbank. But consumed by grief over the recent death of her older sister Minnie, she has vowed never to leave her family's side. Her world is capsized at the arrival of the Taylors, a wealthy brother and sister from New Orleans. The McQueens are keen to marry Violet off to Mr. Taylor, and if they succeed, Junie would be ripped away from everyone she knows and loves. Committing a desperate act, she awakens Minnie's tempestuous spirit, who can only move on once Junie completes three crucial tasks. She enlists the aid of Caleb, Mr. Taylor's chauffeur, and the two strike up a quick friendship that soon becomes something more. Yet time is ticking, and as secrets and betrayals rise to the surface, Junie must wade into unfamiliar territory as she pushes against the current that has controlled her entire life. Encapsulating the multitudes of a young girl caught between the steadiness of the familiar and the gamble of diving into the unknown, Erin Crosby Eckstine explores the strength of love and friendship under the crushing weight of servitude. In this radiant and stirring novel, Junie soars to life, brimming with longing that cannot be contained and hope that can never be extinguished"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780593725115
: (hardcover ;
: acid-free paper)
: (ebook)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780593725122
System control number: 23520899
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PS3605.C64
Item number: J86 2025
Edition number: 23/eng/20240116
Classification number: 813/.6
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Erin Crosby Eckstine.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: Ballantine Books/Random House
Date of publication: 2025
Projected publication date: 1111
: New York :
: Ballantine Books,
: 2025.
Extent: 354 pages; 24 cm.
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: Donated 02/06/2026
Purchase price: 30.00
Subject: Enslaved women-Fiction.
Subject: Plantations-Alabama-19th c.-Fiction.
Subject: Alabama-Social life and customs-19th c.-Fiction.
Subject: Sisters-Fiction.
Subject: Grief-Fiction.
Source of term: lcgft
Genre/form data or focus term: Novels.
Main entry heading: Eckstine, Erin Crosby.
Edition: First edition
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Ballantine Books, 2025
Display text: Online version:
Title: Junie.
Record control number: (DLC) 2023056632
International Standard Book Number: 9780593725122
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: 1 shelf copy
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: xk40 2024-02-08 updated author's name/050 per change request
: xn16 2025-04-01 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
: xk40 2024-01-16
: xk40 2024-01-16 (TW Situational) to review
: xk34 2024-01-17

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